| LC control no. | no 99025043 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Omar, Abdullah |
| Variant(s) | Omar, Dullah Omar, Dullah Mohamed |
| Associated country | South Africa |
| Birth date | 1934-05-26 |
| Death date | 2004-03-13 |
| Place of birth | Observatory (Cape Town, South Africa) |
| Field of activity | Justice, Administration of Law Constitutional law Human rights |
| Affiliation | University of the Western Cape. Community Law Centre South Africa. Ministry of Justice |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Civil rights lawyers Justice ministers Anti-apartheid activists |
| Found in | Transformation of the South African system of justice, c1998: cover (Abdullah Omar, South African minister of justice) Wits Law School Home page, Apr. 9, 1999: (Address by Minister of Justice, Mr. Dullah Omar, 14 Feb. 1995) Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights website, viewed Dec. 13, 2017: history (Adv. Dullah Omar; in 2015 the Community Law Centre was renamed the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights to honour its founding director and first Minister of Justice in a democratic South Africa) South African History Online, viewed Dec. 13, 2017 (Dullah Mohamed Omar; Dullah Omar; born in Observatory, Cape Town, 26 May 1934, grew up in District Six; LLB 1957, University of Cape Town; set up his own law practice in 1960; one of the few attorneys prepared to take on the political trials of the 1960s; became the Pan Africanist Congress' official attorney; elected to the Western Cape regional executive of the African National Congress in 1990, and a member of the ANC's National Executive Committee in 1991; oversaw the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee; died 13 March 2004) |
| Associated language | eng |
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